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The official account dedicated to the legacy of artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018), managed by The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative.

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Happy Indiana Day of LOVE. ❤️

Today marks one year since Indianapolis officially proclaimed October 22 as Indiana's Day of LOVE, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Indiana's iconic LOVE sculpture at Newfields.

For more than five decades, *LOVE* has been part of countless proposals, family photos, friendships, and cherished memories. Here's to all the love stories still to come.

Do you have a favorite memory with *LOVE*? ❤️

#DiscoverNewfields #NewfieldsToday @robertindiana

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Art Basel Paris is finally here!

Come visit the Almine Rech booth (A16), wander the city to see our artists’ exhibitions, and stop by our gallery in the Marais.

To mark the occasion, we invite you to explore a curated selection of in-house publications, rare volumes, and exceptional titles from our Art Basel Paris program, all available on our website.

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#ArtBaselParis #AlmineRech #ArtBooks

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Three gallery shows to see in the Marais:
1-7 Robert Indiana: Alchemy at @alminerech
8-15 Lee Bae at @perrotin
16-20 Jordan Casteel at @thaddaeusropac
#parisgallery #artmuserecommends

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Some journeys are mapped in miles. Mine was mapped in LOVE. @robertindiana @artbasel
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#RobertIndiana #ArtBaselParis #Love #paris #grandpalais

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Discover Robert Indiana’s monumental LOVE sculpture (‘LOVE Wall’, 1966-2006), on view at the Place Clemenceau in Paris, France, as part of Art Basel Paris’ Public Program from Tuesday, October 20 to Friday, October 23, 2026.

‘Robert Indiana: Alchemy’, the artist’s first monographic exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, is currently on view at Almine Rech Paris through January 23, 2027.

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Robert Indiana‘s LOVE sculptures are among the most recognized public artworks in the world. Indiana created his image LOVE in 1964. What began as a work on paper developed into an influential painting and sculpture series that he would return to throughout his six-decade career. In 1966, Indiana carved his first LOVE sculpture, and kept returning to the motif for the rest of his career – its four bold letters becoming a symbol of the era’s message of peace and love. Here, four LOVEs are stacked in Cor-Ten steel and arranged so their four O’s meet in the centre. Indiana first used this layout in a painting titled LOVE Wall in 1966.

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’LOVE Wall’ (1966-2006)
Artwork: ©️ 2026 The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Video by InstanT Productions
Courtesy of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative and Almine Rech

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Text Yoko Ono by Jérôme Sans

Purple The Peace issue #46 F/W 2026-2027
@purplefashionmagazine @ozpurple @yokoono

« Silence, resistance, tenacity, gentleness - a lifetime of artistic engagement for peace. Imagine Peace is a work by the Japanese artist Yoko Ono that the world seems destined to continue hearing. Not because the artist doubts her own affirmation, or because she is searching for herself, but because the world still has not fully I understood this work. Because the world keeps shattering our fragile peace and forever rekindling eternal conficts. For more than half a century, the artist has been repeating this message. She repeats it with gentleness and obstinacy. She repeats it in newspapers, on city walls, projected in the sky, on screens, and on the volcanic stones of islands. She repeats it in 24 languages, so that no one can claim not to have heard the mes-sage. She tirelessly repeats these two words:
« Imagine peace. » Two words, an injunction. A verdict of collective failure and, simultaneously, a most beautiful form of resistance. » Jérôme Sans

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“Robert Indiana: Alchemy” is on view now through January 23, 2027! Presented in collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, this marks Indiana’s first monographic exhibition with the gallery.

In tandem with the exhibition, Indiana's monumental sculpture “LOVE Wall” (1966–2006) will be featured as part of Art Basel Paris’s public program.

Pre-order your copy of Robert Indiana: An American Icon—a revelatory monograph celebrating the groundbreaking Pop art, assemblage, and hard-edge pioneer—now on the Almine Rech Editions website.

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Instrallation view: Nicolas Brasseur

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#wentworthmiller LOVE by Robert Indiana via @bonhams1793 from December 3, 2020.
Robert Indiana, „Golden Love“, 1973. @robertindiana
#robertindiana #american #artist #contemporaryart
Reposted by Wentworth Miller on April 8, 2021

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”Robert Indiana: Alchemy“, Robert Indiana‘s first monographic exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, opens today at Almine Rech Paris and will be on view until January 23, 2027! Concurrent with the exhibition, a monumental LOVE sculpture (”LOVE Wall“, 1966 - 2006) by the artist will be on view as part of Art Basel Paris’ public program.

A panel featuring Joe Lin-Hill and Clare Lilley also takes place at 5:30 pm today at Almine Rech Paris, with Annabelle Ténèze as the moderator.⁠

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William Katz describes Indiana’s artistic vocabulary as that of a formalist, a geometer, and a poet: “Geometry, Identity, Memory, and the encircling unity of these three.” The found wood bears the written word of a poet that condenses to a spiritual sign. Every element here asserts its “thingness”: nothing is other than itself, the word is not a stand-in for the thing, but the thing itself, for the “word became image.” In his works, the materiality of the found exists in a productive tension with the perfect surfaces of the hard-edge paintings and the LOVE sculptures. Between found materials, words, numbers, signs, and forms, an artistic oeuvre emerges that is borne by contradiction and marked by continuing significance.

— Extract from “Robert Indiana: From the Neglected into the Wanted,” essay by Dieter Buchhart, art historian and curator.

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”Ge“, 1960, cast 1991
Signed, dated, numbered, and inscribed along the interior edge of underside of sculpture
Painted bronze
Edition 8 of 8 plus 2 APs

”Orb“, 1960, cast 1991
Signed, dated, numbered, and inscribed along the interior edge of underside of sculpture
Painted bronze
Edition 8 of 8 plus 2 APs
Photo: Courtesy of Walla Walla Foundry, Washington

”LOVE“, 1966–2006
Incised with artist‘s signature and date on the base: R
Marble (Marmo Bianco)
89.2 x 95.1 x 54.5 cm
35 1/4 x 37 1/2 x 21 1/2 in
487 kg

©️ The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Courtesy of the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative and Almine Rech

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Day 2: City exploration!

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Almine Rech Paris is pleased to present “Robert Indiana: Alchemy”, Robert Indiana’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, on view from October 17, 2026, to January 23, 2027. Concurrent with the exhibition, a monumental LOVE sculpture (‘LOVE WALL’, 1966-2006) by the artist will be on view as part of Art Basel Paris’ Public Program.

A panel featuring Joe Lin-Hill and Clare Lilley will also take place at 5:30 pm on the opening day at Almine Rech Paris, with Annabelle Ténèze as the moderator.⁠

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Robert Indiana’s work is rooted in acts of transformation. From the weathered wood, rusted wheels, discarded architectural elements, and commercial stencils he found around Coenties Slip to the hard-edge paintings and monumental word sculptures for which he became known, Indiana repeatedly converted the overlooked and the ordinary into highly charged artistic form. His own description of this process as the transmutation of ‘the lost into the found, junk into art, the neglected into the wanted, the unloved into the loved, dross into gold’ provides a key to understanding the material, formal, and symbolic logic of his work.

— Extract from “Robert Indiana: From the Neglected into the Wanted,” essay by Dieter Buchhart, art historian and curator.

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“EAT”, 1962⁠
Engraved with the artist’s signature, date, and number⁠
Painted bronze⁠
148.8 x 38.1 x 32 cm⁠
58 5/8 x 15 x 12 5/8 in.⁠
Edition of 8 plus 2 APs⁠

“Columns (DIE, LOVE, HUG/EAT/ERR, EAT, EAT/DIE/HUG/ERR, HUG)”, 1963–64
Signed, dated, and inscribed along the lower edge with artist‘s signature, date, and edition number: R INDIANA COENTIES SLIP NYC 1964
Six gesso on wood beams with bases by Richard Artschwager
4 columns: 162.6 x 33.7 x 33.7 cm - 64 x 13 1/4 x 13 1/4 in; 1 column: 198.1 x 33.7 x 33.7 cm - 78 x 13 1/4 x 13 1/4 in; 1 column: 170.8 x 34.3 x 34.3 cm - 67 1/4 x 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 in; dimensions vary.

©️ 2026 The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative / ARS
Courtesy of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative

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1️⃣ ONE THROUGH ZERO 0️⃣ | What numbers are meaningful to you? For Robert Indiana, numbers held specific personal resonance. His series ONE Through ZERO (The Ten Numbers) signifies the cycle of life, with the number one representing birth and the number zero standing for death.

Hear from the Parrish’s Chief Curator Corinne Erni as she discusses Indiana’s fascination with numbers and the relationship between people and these figures up close as visitors experience their material strength and life-size scale. Let the fall breeze guide you through these iconic sculptures in our meadow. Museum grounds are free to visit and open daily, 11 AM–5 PM.

Installation view of Robert Indiana (1928–2018), ONE Through ZERO (The Ten Numbers), 1980–2003 at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (July 13, 2026–January 13, 2027). Conceived: 1980; Fabricated 2003. Cor-ten Steel on painted aluminum base. Each sculpture: 78 x 74 x 38 in (overall including base). Edition of six plus two artist's proofs. Video courtesy of Liz Glasgow Studios and Parrish Art Museum.

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